How do you paste multi-line code examples into this website?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

I've seen that other people (e.g. @Charles Miller [Atlassian] in this example) have managed to paste more than 1 line of code into this UI without it splitting the code block into multiple code blocks.

When I do it, each line has it's own one-line code block e.g.

// comment on line 1

// comment on line 2

Or this example.

What's the secret? Please share.

[Colin Goudie · Accepted solution]

I'd say it depends on where you're copying from. Below is copied from a raw output from github. Spacing is screwed (so had to be corrected a bit) but it pasted in one block

When you hit ENTER, by default this starts a new paragraph which will make a new code block. Shift-ENTER keeps the same block

                String authUrl = null;
                try
                {
                    link.createAuthenticatedRequestFactory().createRequest(MethodType.GET, "");
                }
                catch(CredentialsRequiredException e)
                {
                    // if an exception is thrown, we need to prompt for oauth                
                    authUrl = e.getAuthorisationURI().toString();
                }

[JamieA]

But why does the formatting suck so hard when compared to stackoverflow or even atlassian's many "code" macros. How about a horizontal scrollbar to stop it wrapping? Not to mention syntax highlighting. Oh and a "preview" function would be great too.

[Jeremy Largman]

A few days ago we released some improvements to the editor. There's a 'code' button that'll allow syntax highlighiting, a [show preview], and horizontal scrolling.

I hope it's better. There are still more improvements to come.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

OK, it looks like someone fixed the linked example above :)